Shairi: Maombi ya Tabasamu Lako
Time clocking, days passing, Where will I find you? I have searched for days, Hours, I haven’t been able to locate you. My ribs feel like glass catching the light just before they shatter, The silence in this room has a weight that bruises, I am calling into an empty canyon, catching nothing but the thinning ghost of my own voice. I am tracing old maps of a city that burned down, I am losing hope. I am breaking, caught off breath. I slowly bruise my knees longing for you my missed one. Is it love, or is it loneliness that breaks my heart in two? I wander through the space and ask, when will I see you? Should I ascend into the sky, past stars that softly gleam, To find your missing pieces and rebuild a broken dream? I long to feel my smile return, the way it used to do, So tell me, will yo…